How to Set Up Remote Domains in Exchange?

Megha Sharma
Updated On - 13 Feb 2019

Remote domains are used by Exchange organizations to control mail flow to external recipients. Some information about message senders are not necessary to be shared with all the external recipients but are to be shared within the organization or with some specific external domains only. Using remote domains, organizations can meet these goals.

What Do You Mean By Remote Domains?

Remote domains are the SMTP domains external to the Exchange organization. They help to control various aspects of the message while sending emails to recipients outside the organization.

Exchange administrators can set remote domain settings to manage the Exchange message transfers between the organization and specific external recipients.

The features and functions which can be controlled by Remote Domains are automatic replies, auto-forwarding of messages, delivery reports, forwarding meeting notifications, line wrap length, treat mail to/from the domain as trusted, use a simple display name for recipients in the domain name and diagnostic information for non-delivery reports.

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Finally, click Save.

Hence, you have seen that setting Remote domains for mail flow regulation is an easy task with the Exchange Admin Center.

Conclusion

Readers get to learn the importance of the Remote domain feature in Exchange Server to manage the communication between the organization and external recipients. The mail-flow management helps in avoiding leakage of crucial information outside the organization and also in avoiding the extra load of unrequired messages.